ἀρεστός
pleasing
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G701 appears in the Book of John — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
John
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek adjective αρεστος centers on the idea of “pleasing.” It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Acts dominates its distribution — 2 of 4 verses. Its earliest occurrence is John 8:29. Related forms include αρεσκω and αρεσκεια. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G701 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 50%
- Johannine 2 verses · 50%
- Gospels 1 verse · 25%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Reason 1×, Things that are pleasing 1×, Things that please 1×
- American Standard Version: Things that are pleasing 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Is pleasing 1×, Pleased 1×, Pleases 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pleasing 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G701 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G701 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G701 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G701 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- pleasing, agreeable
Word origin
Derived from αρεσκω (aréskō) (G700) — to please.
From G700 ; agreeable ; by implication fit : - (things that) please (-ing) reason.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G701 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀρεστόν arestón | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Acts 6:2 | 2 |
| ἀρεστὰ arestà | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | John 8:29 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G701, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αρεστος appears 20 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 20 verses in 9 books.
- 20
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 20
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 3:6 ἀρεστός
- Exodus 15:26 ἀρεστός
- Leviticus 10:19 ἀρεστός
- Deuteronomy 6:18 ἀρεστός
- Ezra 7:18 ἀρεστός
- Proverbs 21:3 ἀρεστός
- Isaiah 38:3 ἀρεστός
- Jeremiah 9:13 ἀρεστός
- Daniel 4:29 ἀρεστός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G701) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:6 ἀρεστός When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
- Genesis 16:6 ἀρεστός But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
- Exodus 15:26 ἀρεστός and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."
- Leviticus 10:19 ἀρεστός Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh; and such things as these have happend to me: and if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the sight of Yahweh?"
- Deuteronomy 6:18 ἀρεστός You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,
- Deuteronomy 12:8 ἀρεστός You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;
- Deuteronomy 12:25 ἀρεστός You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 12:28 ἀρεστός Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 13:19 ἀρεστός
- Deuteronomy 21:9 ἀρεστός So shall you put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
- Ezra 7:18 ἀρεστός Whatever shall seem good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do you after the will of your God.
- Ezra 10:11 ἀρεστός Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
- Ezra 19:24 ἀρεστός
- Ezra 19:37 ἀρεστός
- Proverbs 21:3 ἀρεστός To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
- Isaiah 38:3 ἀρεστός and said, Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.
- Jeremiah 9:13 ἀρεστός Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
- Jeremiah 16:12 ἀρεστός and you have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don't listen to me:
- Jeremiah 18:12 ἀρεστός But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.
- Daniel 4:29 ἀρεστός At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G701) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
